Gotta love how quite a handful of politicians protect pedophiles but also care ‘about children’
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Remember: when politicians are talking about "protecting kids", their goals are ANYTHING BUT protecting the kids
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It’s scary how the big brother joke is slowly becoming a reality
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Clippy would never take away your right for anonimity
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Friendly reminder to anyone who's on board with this new law: parental controls exist.
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As an Australian- yeah, this is 100% needed to be stated. I don't want to 'show ID' to a platform if they misflag me- especially since I appreciate my anonymity online. We don't need another data leak....
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Every government overreach for power in history always starts with "tHiNk oF tHe ChilDrEn!!!!" Any time you hear that phrase is a massive red flag that "the children" are the last thing they're concerned with.
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You just have to take a look what is happening in UK right now to understand how bad it's going to be.
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It is absolutely insane what they are doing. They’ll ban YouTube but not Discord or Roblox which puts children at major risks? Unbelievable.
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If it was about “protecting kids” than Discord would be a part of the ban. It’s as simple as that.
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Do you remember the times of "create a fake name, its way safer that way online, kids!"
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US is trying to do something similar, and it is rightly pissing EVERYONE off who hears about it. If parents would just learn to parent properly rather than just put an iPad in front of them whenever they didn't want to deal with them and have some alone time, then we would have idiotic laws being pushed like this in the first place. Spread the word, share videos about it to your friends both IRL and online, tell your family, call your representative, do whatever it takes to shut this down. Anyone who would willingly sacrifice their rights for even a small sense of security deserves neither
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What I find fascinating is you can route your internet traffic through a DNS server that can block adult content, so you wouldn't have to worry about your kids visiting those websites. Instead, the political parties want to know everything about your internet history, while they wouldn't want the same for their selfies. I'm not a U.S. citizen, but even if this happens in Australia tomorrow, there's no telling when it would happen in my country. So I pray for your success against the evil within your country to be removed, punished, and publicly shamed for this behavior.
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It's a similar thing going on in the UK and the entire European union. It's actually just fucked up, and I'm surprised that they were able to rush it through like this and actually succeed in it
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Younger generations and free access to information (unlike state mandated textbooks in schools) are always a politicians worst nightmare. Only a fool thinks this government cares about kids. This is just a stepping stone to exercising more control on the population
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Fix the housing crisis, rampant inflation, poor quality of life?? Nah stuff that, let’s focus on kids and online safety!! That’ll fix everything!!!!
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Holy shit I didn’t now internet anarchistic was chill asf like that
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Whats even worse is, they'll probably keep your ID photos stored somewhere, and what happens when that location inevitably gets found, hacked, and used for identity theft or worse.
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The fact that people would sooner cheer on this level of government over sight rather then simply parenting their own kids is no shock in today’s society.
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I forgot that you’re a fellow Australian for a second but I’m so happy you’re speaking out about this. This is atrocious how they are “protecting kids” and it’s just trying to control everything. While I do think some restrictions like parental controls are good, this is too much.
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Internet Anarchist
As an Aussie creator, this is something I need to speak up about.
This is not “protecting kids”... It’s the government building a surveillance state in broad daylight.
What Australia is now enforcing with the new “age verification” regime is genuinely terrifying. It’s authoritarian, it’s invasive, and it should piss off every single person who cares about privacy, basic rights, or the idea of a free internet...
They’re attempting to normalise a world where you have to prove your identity just to exist online. Not because you broke the law.. Not because you’re a risk.. But because some algorithm thinks you're "young" or because you watch content they don’t like. That is insane. It turns every Aussie adult into a suspect who has to constantly justify why they’re allowed to be online.
And once you allow the government and giant tech companies to profile you, flag you, and demand ID or biometric scans just to keep your account, the door is blown wide open. Today it’s “protecting children.” Tomorrow it’s political content. Protests. “Misinformation.” Anything they decide is dangerous or inconvenient. There is no stopping point.
This is not about safety... It’s about control.
Forcing age-assurance, building massive databases of verified identities, tying them to what you watch, who you follow, and what you say… this is the dream scenario for surveillance, censorship, and tracking. It’s a nightmare for creators. It’s a nightmare for vulnerable people who rely on anonymity. And it’s a nightmare for any normal person who doesn’t want their government breathing down their neck every time they open an app.
If you’re Aussie, please don’t sit this out:
- Speak up now before this becomes permanent
- Contact your MP and say clearly: you do NOT consent to mandatory ID or biometric checks
- Talk about it with friends so this doesn’t get quietly swept through
If we stay silent, we sleepwalk straight into a system we’ll never be able to undo. This is one of the most dangerous tech policies Australia has ever pushed. And if we don’t push back, it becomes the new normal.
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